Posted by Jarvis on Apr 03, 2013; 11:21pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/jogl-demos-fail-Failed-to-created-initialize-EGL-display-tp4028878p4028903.html

You are correct, that switch was actually to allow the loading of librxtxSerial.so.  This project is  probably a bit complicated  for a debugging situation,  but I'll blame that on my complete lack of Java knowledge.

Thanks for all of the help!